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Meghan Durham/Merge Dance supports physical and aesthetic inquiry through the medium of dance, and advocates access to dance for diverse populations, inviting the integration and excavation of human experience through movement.

Recent Projects

Repertory:
"George Lassos the Moon" (2009)
Music: Enrico Michael Wall, Woody Guthrie
Performers/Length: Duet, 6 minutes
Premiere: "Manimals and Other Creatures," OSU Sullivant Theater, Columbus, OH

"If I can't or I don't, am I less?" (2008)
Music: Rene Aubry, Magnetic Fields
Performers/Length: Trio, 12 minutes
Premiere: Work-in- progress showings at the New Festival (June 2007 Philadelphia, PA) and at the Theatre Research and Training Program (October 2007, Singapore).

"Waiting/Weighted" (2007)
Music: Arvo Part
Performers/Length: Trio, 11 minutes
Premiere: Site specific performance, Grounds for Sculpture, Hamilton, NJ.

"Otherhood" (2007)
Music: Michael Wall
Performers/Length: Sextet, 20 minutes
Premiere: Drake Theater, Philadelphia, PA. Produced by the nEW Festival.

"Fragment of (Me)mory" (2006)
Music: Alexander Borodin
Performers/Length: Trio, 18 minutes
Premiere: Berlind Theater, Princeton, NJ.  Produced by Princeton University.
Repertory Performances: LIFT, Conwell Theater, Philadelphia (October 2007); Goose Route Arts Collaborative, War Memorial Black Box Theater, Sheperdstown, WV (July 2007).
Work-in-progress Performances: Philly Fringe Festival, Mum Puppettheatre, Philadelphia, PA (September 2006); Glue Performance Series, CEC Meeting House Theatre, Philadelphia, PA, (June 2006).

"Exhale on one" (2006)
Music: Michael Wall
Text: Mark Strand
Video: Meghan Durham
Performers/Length: Solo, 10 minutes
Premiere: Mum Puppettheatre, Philadelphia, PA. Performed for Philly Fringe Festival.

"Appetite" (2006)
Musical Collage: Rene Aubry, Jonatha Brooke, Gavin Bryars, Club Foot Orchestra, Kamikaze Ground Crew, Karl Jenkins, Miguel Llobet, Henri Torgue, Serge Houppin, Bill Monroe, Jon Scoville, Michael Wall
Text: Thomas Hobbes, Meghan Durham, Kahlil Gibran, Matthew 6:11, Sheryl Shade,
Imagery: Richard Best, Craig LaRotunda, Hans Baldung, Aldegrever Heinrich
Video: Meghan Durham
Performers/Length: Seven dancers, 50 minutes
Premiere: Painted Bride Arts Center, Philadelphia, PA. Performed for Artist Access.
Repertory Performances: Goose Route Arts Collaborative, War Memorial Black Box Theater, Sheperdstown, WV (July 2007).  Work-in-progress Performances: Spirit Wind Art Center, Philadelphia, PA (June 2005).  University Repertory: Excerpts set on five undergraduate dance majors at Ohio State University, Sullivant Theater, Columbus, OH (March 2008).

"Breakthrough" (2004)
Music: Mike Rabinowitz, Nicole Metzger, Wesley G, Joe Fonda
Performers/Length: Solo, collaborative performance with live musicians, 30 minutes.
Premiere: Middleton, CT, Composers and Improvisers Festival.

"at the root of this longing" (2004)
Music: Rene Aubry, Karl Jenkins, Tokada.
Performers/Length:Quartet, 10 minutes
Premiere: Drake Theater, Philadelphia, PA. Produced by DanceHouse, presented by Melanie Stewart Dance Theatre.